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  • History Revealed

    CROSSWORD

    Sep 01, 2022 2 minutes

    Test your history knowledge to solve our prize puzzle – and you could win a fantastic new book

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    • Mrs_, character in the 1775 play
    • 8
    • 14th-centuryepicpoembyPetrarch (6)
    • AncientcityinsouthwestIreland (4)
    • ThePictureof___, 1891 Oscar Wilde novel (6,4)
    • ArchaicGreekpoetofLesbos (6)
    • Albert_ (1879-1955), German-born patent examiner and physicist (8)
    • OfficialnewspaperoftheCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (6)
    • Himalayankingdomknownas‘the Land of the Thunder Dragon’ (6)
    • PatronsaintofCatalonia Moscow, Ethiopia

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